Stars & Galaxies 2
Across
- 2. The most luminous, most massive stars, with diameters greater than 100 times the diameter of our Sun
- 8. A halo of gasses that is formed by the expelled layers of a star’s atmosphere
- 10. The final life stage of an extremely massive star, with a gravitational field so intense that not even light can escape
- 11. The Super dense remains of a massive star that collapsed with enough Force to push all of its electrons into the nuclear they orbit resulting in a mass of neutrons
- 12. A distant neutron star that emits rapid pulses of light and radio waves instead of steady radiation
- 13. The remnant of a giant star that has lost its outer atmosphere; the glowing stellar core
Down
- 1. A star that is at the point in its life cycle in which it is actively fusing with hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei; also the band of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram depicting such stars
- 3. A group of millions, or even billions, of stars held together by gravity
- 4. theory holding the Universe originated from an instant expansion of an extremely small concentration of matter extremely high density and temperature
- 5. A very distant, extremely luminous celestial object that scientists considered to be a type of active galactic nuclei
- 6. Large star with great luminosity and a diameter 10-100 times greater than that of the Sun
- 7. Brilliant burst of light that follows the collapse of the iron core of a massive star
- 9. A large cloud of dust or gas in space